Monday, 11 August 2014

Ebola- Another nurse tests positive

The dreadful disease has started spreading, reports says that a newly married nurse has been confirmed positive.
                                            The nurse who had direct contact with late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who brought the first case of Ebola virus in Nigeria, has tested positive to the deadly disease. 


According to the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, the husband of the nurse is among the 177 people placed under surveillance.
He said that ten cases of the disease have so far been confirmed in Nigeria, two of them dead while eight are alive and undergoing treatment. 

It is important to recall that a nurse who had direct contact with Patrick Sawyer died last Wednesday August 6th. Up till now, the cure has not been found, and the United states of America is yet to release the experimental serum Zmapp to Africa..


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